Exhibitions in Chicago

Smart Museum of Art · Free

Paintings, sculpture, works on paper and installation in which Abney borrows the grammar of advertising to show how extraction, consumer culture, militarisation and environmental decline became routine.

Chicago Architecture Center

Six decades of the CAC, from fighting to save historic buildings during urban renewal to shaping design education and advocacy across Chicago. In the Orientation Space.

Art Institute of Chicago

Cokes's first outdoor presentation in Chicago fills the Bluhm Family Terrace with a two-part installation: a billboard viewable from Millennium Park and a freestanding sign, both set to music.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Six artists reclaim forms of slowness that resist the contemporary demand to constantly perform, across painting, sculpture, video and live performance.

Richard H. Driehaus Museum

Paintings from collector M. Christine Schwartz's gift trace Chicago's fine arts from academic naturalism to impressionism across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Field Museum

Fossil Pokémon such as Tyrantrum and Archeops are set side by side with the real fossils that inspired them, including SUE the T. rex. North American debut of the touring Japanese exhibition.

Richard H. Driehaus Museum

Thirteen marbles, paintings and archives chart the career of Emma Stebbins, the first woman awarded a public sculpture commission by New York City for Central Park's Bethesda Fountain.

Museum of Contemporary Photography · Free

Eight photographers and six writers document resilient communities across Africa, bridging postcolonial critique with contemporary hope through gender, spirituality, displacement and self-representation.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Spanning three floors, this exhibition explores the far-reaching impact of art historian, critic and curator Lucy Lippard through themes found in her work.

Smart Museum of Art · Free

A thematic draw from the Smart's permanent collection exploring art and healing across six strands: health, grief, displacement, trauma, mindfulness and protection.

Smart Museum of Art · Free

A large-scale site-specific mural for the Smart's Threshold series, using the flat visual language of diagrams and educational charts to map power, labour, housing and inequality as one system.

Art Institute of Chicago

More than 50 objects from the Arts of Africa collection show beliefs and values surrounding the body shared across the continent, and the distinct cultural forms those ideas take.